Wired UK

Wired UK

December 2009 edition of UK Wired magazine
Editor	David Rowan, Michael Rundle (Wired.co.uk)
Categories	Technology, Business, lifestyle, thought leadership
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	57,497 (ABC Jul - Dec 2013) Print and digital editions.
Publisher	Nick Sargent
First issue	May 2009 (present form)
Company	Condé Nast Publications
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	http://www.wired.co.uk/

Wired UK is a full-colour monthly magazine that reports primarily on the effects of science and technology. It covers a broad range of topics including design, architecture, culture, the economy, politics and philosophy. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it is published in London and is an offshoot of the original American Wired.

The current version of the magazine was launched in April 2009, and was the second international version of Wired, after the launch of Wired Italia in March 2009. In November 2009, the British Society of Magazine Editors awarded Launch of the Year to Wired editor David Rowan. Michael Rundle (formerly of Huffington Post UK) took over from Nate Lanxon as editor for WIRED.co.uk in March 2015. The current website editor is Victoria Woollaston, former deputy science editor of the Daily Mail Online.

Both in 2011 and in 2014, Wired UK was named as the magazine of the year by the Digital Magazine Awards.

The magazine's current incarnation follows an earlier attempt at a British edition of Wired which ran from April 1995 until March 1997. It was initially created as a joint venture with the Guardian Media Group and Wired US's then owners, Wired Ventures, but that incarnation lasted only three or four issues, due to a culture clash between the two parties and low sales figures of 25,000 per month. Wired Ventures then ran the UK edition alone, with an almost entirely new staff, until the magazine was closed with the March 1997 issue, when sales were at 40,000 magazines per month.

Wired UK, together with Telefonica, held a two-day event on 25–26 October 2012 at The Brewery in London. The conference was designed to "explore the ideas, innovations and people that are reshaping our world". Among its speakers were David Karp, founder of microblogging platform Tumblr, and Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American freelance journalist and commentator.

Wired 2011, hosted between 13–14 October at the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, included guest speakers Joanna Shields, Managing Director and Vice President of Facebook EMEA, and Gil Hirsch, founder of Face.com.